Hopscotch
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and...
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Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394752846 (0394752848)
ASIN: 394752848
Publish date: February 12th 1987
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 564
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1981-05-15)If you like your novels simple and straightforward, don’t read “Hopscotch”.If you have an allergy to extended brainy digressions and convoluted debates, you better avoid “Hopscotch”.If you abhor puns, double entendre and wordplay, I most seriously advise you to stay clea...
Absolutne arcydzieło! Książka, w której są trzy książki (co najmniej) i setki światów. Swego czasu (lata 70-te, 80-te) ludzie rozmawiali za jej pomocą wymieniając się kartkami :-)
Założenie było takie, że najpierw przeczytam książkę „po Bożemu” (od początku do rozdziału 56.), a potem pobawię się w „skakankę”. Plan został wykonany w połowie, a i to z wielkim trudem. Trochę mi wstyd, bo kilka ostatnich rozdziałów zaledwie omiotłam wzrokiem, zatrzymując się jedynie przy „ciągnąc...
Pfffff thank god for that!The majority of South American literary-ture that I've read (sans Borges, Marquez and the other obviousers) has been about bohemians dicking about and occasionally having sex, and Hopscotch is no different. It claims to be two books, one which is read left to right until th...
Liked:It is a book that explores form through both form and content.I am like the characters in that I am reading a book that explores form and so are they.Octavio Paz, Ferlinghetti, Coleridgejazz, art, philosophy, alcoholrepetition of words, ideas, charactersthe form of chapter 34the unreality of d...
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